Remember Jimmy Carter the crusading human rights warrior who got a Nobel prize for his efforts, and who initiated an international boycott of the Olympic games in Moscow because of Soviet rights violations? Sure you do. Around the world, Carter tried to pressure US supported regimes into respecting human rights, sometimes taking extreme measures. When Iranian generals wanted to suppress the Khomeini uprising, Carter administration officials were sent to warn them to respect human rights.

Is it possible to create a grass roots organization just by describing the need? I don't know, but it is worth a try.

Ilana Diamond, a student at the University of Texas, described the problem in her article about campus Israel advocacy, It's lonely being pro-Israel on campus. Groups like the International Solidarity, Palestine Solidarity Committee and Campus Anti-War Movement to End the Occupation flood campuses with vitriolic propaganda comparing Zionism to Nazism and Gaza to Auschwitz.

"Asymmetric warfare" has become the new buzzword and bogeyman of military thinking. For our purposes, asymmetric warfare is war between a state and guerrilla groups who supposedly have much more limited resources. Many believe that such wars are unwinnable as General Amidror points out in his analysis. Amidror asserts that asymmetric conflicts can be won by states, provided the goal is not unconditional surrender, as in World War II, but rather a "suspension" of hostilities. He points to the American surge in Iraq and the Israeli success against Palestinian violence as examples of such "victories."